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I have two hard drives. One is a 150 GB Western Digital Raptor and the second Hard drive is a 1 TB Seagate Hard drive. The 1 TB hard drive which is the second one has all my music and movies on it is the one I want to make a 60GB partition from and install Linux or PC-BSD on.
If I were to install either one for example PC-BSD or Open Suse on the 60 GB partition should I install it on that one and use the BSD bootloader? I also read that Easy BCD was a recommended bootloader. How should I do this?

How to dual-boot Vista with Linux (Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshots

Kind of sounds like you have a good enough system to consider a Virtual Machine. On supported systems the guest OS can run at or near real time speeds. It saves you from any dual boot problems and hassles like partitions and you can run them from images and virtual hard drives. You really should consider a VM before you attempt a dual boot.
You should backup your system before you attempt a dual boot. Just in case.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

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